Self Publish, Be Happy - Talk & Social with Bruno Ceschel

Join author of the book and founder of Self Publish, Be Happy, Bruno Ceschel as he delivers his self-publishing manifesto, expands upon the ideas that the book presents and provides a rallying cry for all those involved in the contemporary photobook revolution — a moment in which the photobook, in all its infinitesimal manifestations, has never before been so omnipresent in our cultural landscape, nor so critical to the photographer’s practice.

The Talk will take place at 4pm at Leeds College of Art, followed by a book signing and social at Village (3 Thornton's Arcade, Leeds, LS1 6LQ) from 6pm.

Tickets for the event are free, but spaces are limited. If you reserve a ticket and then cannot attend the event, please let us know so we can free up the ticket for someone else.

Bruno Ceschel is a writer, publisher and lecturer at the Camberwell College of Arts—University of the Arts London and École cantonale d'art de Lausanne.

He is the founder of Self Publish, Be Happy, an organisation that collects, studies, and celebrates self-published photobooks through an ongoing program of workshops, live events, and off/online projects. Self Publish, Be Happy has organised events at a number of institutions around the world, including Tate Modern, The Photographer’s Gallery, Serpentine Galleries, C/O Berlin, Aperture Foundation and Kunsthal Charlottenborg amongst others. Ceschel is also the Director of SPBH Editions, which has most recently published books by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Lucas Blalock, Mariah Robertson, Gareth McConnell and Lorenzo Vitturi.

Ceschel writes regularly for a number of publications such as FOAM, The British Journal of Photography and Aperture Magazine and has guest-edited issues of Photography and Culture and The PhotoBook Review.

His new book Self Publish, Be Happy: A DIY Photobook Manual and Manifesto has just been published by Aperture Foundation.